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@UNWatch $3.3B to perpetuate a 78 refugee problem You can’t be a refugee of Palestine when … born in Gaza, Ramallah, Hebron,

@OlegFilimonovic @IsraelMFA @UNRWA @UN You can’t be a Palestinian refugee and reside in Palestine at the same time … the 2M Gazans … are at home

@hahussain @EinatWilf “Interim” UNIFIL just hit 48 years… UNRWA is on year 77 of its 5yr mandate The UN doesn’t solve problems- it franchises them

@MoeGuven11 @mdubowitz @EylonALevy No genocide ever happened or existed to Palestinians. You mix up cause and effect. Palestinians have agency, all their ills are caused by them not by the West

@DavidM_Friedman The natives who don’t like their land

@johnreed222333 @aziz0nomics You are mixing cause and effect

@WSJopinion @jnbarrot Name one Palestinian leader who wants 1- democracy. 2- to live in peace next to a Jewish state

The land was not stolen. It was for sale. By 1947, Jews held about 463,000 acres. Most of it bought. 73% of the plots were purchased from absentee landowners living in Cairo, Damascus, and Beirut. John Hope Simpson walked the country in 1930 and wrote the sentence the slogans cannot survive: the Jews paid high prices, and then paid tenants to whom they were under no legal obligation to pay a dime. In 1944 as the Holocaust raged, Jews were paying $1,000 to $1,100 an acre for sand and marsh. For comparison, Iowa black dirt that year was going for $110 an acre. King Abdullah later wrote in his memoirs that the Arabs were as prodigal in selling as they are in weeping. It was all the rage to sell worthless land to Jews for exorbitant prices. The mayors of Gaza and Jerusalem sold land to Jews. Members of the Muslim Supreme Council sold land to Jews. As’ad el-Shukairy, the father of the first PLO chairman, took Jewish money for land. The nationalism came after the check cleared.

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Regarding this film. 1. “Naza” (נז״א) is Hebrew for collateral damage, or unintended civilian casualties. There would be no reason to assess, count or consider “Naza” if the intention weren’t to minimize or avoid it. This is particularly difficult against an enemy like Hamas, for whom collateral damage means the same Palestinian civilian casualties Israel is trying to avoid. 2. Hamas doesn’t concern itself with assessing Israeli civilian casualties because civilians are among its intended targets. If they do count civilian casualties, it’s to measure success. To avoid any misunderstanding, its terrorists filmed their atrocities and fire hundreds of indiscriminate rockets at Israel, where a third of the population are children. 3. The film quotes one intelligence officer claiming a strike was approved that could result in 500 deaths. Yet no such strike has ever been recorded or even claimed. To date, the deadliest day of this war remains October 7, 2023. 4. I don’t blame outsiders for their ignorance. Most of the liberal world has forgotten what it means to fight a war on the home front. Its wars are fought with secret commando missions, sterile air strikes and distant battles. It is much easier to condemn the calculation that justifies an attack knowing innocent people may die when your own family isn’t under attack if you don’t make it. 5. The fact that a film like Naza can be made in Israel is itself a sign of a healthy democracy. Its writers and directors can accuse their own country and fellow citizens of grave wrongdoing and remain free to make their case. One thing is guaranteed: we will never see a Palestinian film about Hamas’s atrocities on October 7, nor even an Arab one. Everyone knows why. 6. Freedom does not confer immunity from criticism and antipathy. The director and participants made the film intending to damage their country’s reputation. They are entitled to make that choice. They are also expected to accept the opprobrium and consequences that come with it. Freedom to accuse does not mean freedom from being judged for the accusation.

Do you think there was even one person in that auditorium in Venice who, somewhere in the back of their mind, said to themselves, Wait a minute: 1) One side is holding 251 hostages, including children, grandparents, and parents. 2) It has just invaded and massacred defenseless civilians in Mongol-style fashion. 3) It has systematically turned one of the most beautiful places in the world into a fortress of hundreds of kilometers of tunnels used exclusively for warfare. 4) Its entire doctrine of warfare is built on erasing the fundamental distinction on which the laws of war rest: the distinction between combatants and non-combatants. In fact, its strategy depends on Israel being the only side bound by the laws of war. 5) It knows that Israel calculates the risk to civilians when planning military strikes, and therefore makes sure to surround itself with a minimum number of non-combatants in order to gain protection and cause Israel to call off attacks. 6) It uses mosques, hospitals, schools, and homes as weapons depots and centers of military activity. 7) There is a country, Egypt, with a border that refuses to allow people to leave the war zone. Yet instead of all the world's "humanitarians" pressuring Egypt to accept refugees fleeing a war zone, they call this "ethnic cleansing" and insist that people who are not combatants and do not want to be in a war zone must remain there, despite wanting to flee. And on the other side, Israel: a) Invests billions in obtaining intelligence that allows it to calculate, for each military target, how many non-combatants are likely to be killed if it is attacked. b) Changed its calculations after the massacre regarding how many non-combatants may be put at risk or killed while still falling within the range of collateral damage permitted under the laws of war. c) Following the massacre, decided to expand its definition of military targets to include, for example, an active Hamas member who is officially listed as "only" a police officer carrying a weapon. d) Has lawyers who, for every strike, deliberate over whether the expected harm constitutes permissible collateral damage and whether the attack is justified under international law. And isn't all of this rather strange behavior, and an extraordinary investment in intelligence and lawyers, for a country supposedly intent on carrying out the "indiscriminate killing of civilians/genocide"? Do you think there was even one such person in the auditorium? (In another post, I'll address the phenomenon of Jews giving their enemies pound after pound of flesh.)

@michaeldickson God rest his soul יהי זכרו של דני לוין ושאר הקורבנות ברוך

@UNWatch 🇺🇸 🇸🇪 🇫🇮 have stopped funding the bloodthirsty and hypocritical UNRWA organization that has been perpetuating refugeeness, misery, and conflicts Who will be the next to join? 🇨🇭? 🇩🇪?

@BelgiumJRS Why should taxpayers throw good money after bad? Before condemning 🇮🇱, UNRWA’s donors must explain why they keep funding an agency plagued by oversight failures and repeated Hamas and Islamic Jihad ties

@VilleTavio Thank you sir UNRWA perpetuates a multigenerational refugee framework and violence, and perpetuates Palestinians’ misery

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Jaimee Michell @JaimeeUSA

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What a genocide looks like in population data — and what it doesn’t.

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@antonioguterres @UNRWA There is no greater obstacle to peace than the Palestinians' demand for return and UNRWA that has enabled this demand to grow for decades

@JJansaSDS Thank you sir Prime Minister for the moral clarity in these dark times

A letter to Palestinians: Enough is enough For 78 years, since 1948, the Arab world (and those in it) has been told to bleed, fight, pay, and sacrifice for Palestine. Enough. You rejected the existence of a Jewish state and expected generations of Arabs and non Arabs to inherit that war. Their soldiers died. Their economies paid. Their governments poured billions into “the cause ”. And after every defeat, the answer was the same: more war, more money, more martyrs, more excuses. You turned terrorism into “resistance.” Jews were murdered on buses, in cafés, and in their streets. Planes were hijacked. Athletes were murdered at the Munich Olympics. Suicide bombers were celebrated while children were raised to hate and believe that dying was preferable to compromise. You demanded money from the Arab world and the West while you own corrupt leaders enriched themselves. The world paid for schools, hospitals, refugee agencies, food, and infrastructure, while your people stole money to build rockets, weapons, tunnels, and suicide belts. And wherever Palestinian terrorists went, others paid the price. Jordan nearly lost control of its own country during Black September. Lebanon was dragged into a civil war because of Palestinian groups. Yet responsibility is always someone else’s. Israel. America. Britain. Europe. The Arabs. The UN. The West. Anyone except your own leaders and your own political choices. Even today, the keffiyeh and Palestine are exported slogans and symbols across Western streets and campuses alongside the same message: we are victims, therefore everyone else owes us. No. We don’t owe you a thing. Our children do not owe you their blood nor their future. Our countries do not owe your factions their stability. Western taxpayers do not owe corrupt Palestinian leaders an unlimited stream of money. And nobody should be expected to finance another tunnel, rocket, or generation taught that killing Jews is a holy duty. You want a future? Then build one. Stop worshipping the past. Stop glorifying terrorism. Stop enriching corrupt leaders. Stop teaching generation after generation that destroying Israel is more important than building your own state. Accept that Jews are not disappearing and that another century of war will not change that reality. Seventy-eight years is enough. Face your failures. Take responsibility for your choices. Build something instead of destroying everything around you. And stop demanding that the rest of the world pay the bill. Leave us alone. حلّوا عنا

@OrlyHar @BenCaspit גוש חירות ליברלים בגין מתהפך בקברו

Who funds UNRWA's Hamas teachers: 🇪🇺 EU $134M 🇩🇪 Germany $119M 🇬🇧 UK $47M 🇪🇸 Spain $38M 🇳🇴 Nor $38M 🇫🇷 Fr $31M 🇨🇦 Can $25M 🇮🇪 Ire $21M 🇩🇰 Denmark $21M 🇨🇭 Swiss $17M 🇳🇱 Neth $16M 🇱🇺 Lux $16M 🇧🇪 Belg $13M None has asked us for information. We are releasing it anyway. Stay tuned.